Students elicit patient histories, complete physical examinations, write progress notes, and assist in surgeries and medical procedures.
Medical students spend the first part of this third and fourth years rotating through a combination of required clerkship and electives.
[citation needed] In the 2010s, the New South Wales administration partnered with the University of Wollongong to enroll its senior medical students in a year-long integrated experience of longitudinal clinical clerkship.
Students were sent in regional, rural or remote areas of the NSW and worked in interprofessional hospitals and community teams in which a supervisor or a review gave them first access to acute and chronic care patients.
Care and supervision had been modelled on the previous Cambridge community-based clinical course and on the Parallel Rural Community Curriculum introduced by South Australia in 2007.
[8] In nursing education, a clerkship refers to the clinical courses conducted by students during their final year of studies.